Question

Columbian Exchange
Great Dying
Codices
Quipus
Encomiendas
A) Match the terms with their definitions: (5 points)
Exchange  of trade goods, disease, and people across the Atlantic Ocean
 When 90% of the Indigenous population in the Americas died during the 17th Century
 Incan accounting and messaging system  Recorded history of the Maya and Aztec
 Land granted by the Spanish crown, including the Indigenous populations already living there

Answer 1

Columbian Exchange — Exchange of trade goods, disease, and people across the Atlantic Ocean

Great Dying — When ~90% of the Indigenous population in the Americas died (mainly in the 16th–17th centuries)

Codices — Recorded histories/ books of the Maya and Aztec

Quipus — Incan accounting and messaging system (knotted-string records)

Encomiendas — Land grants by the Spanish crown that included control over the Indigenous populations living there